HOW THE BIBLE TRAINS US TO SEE PURPOSE IN OUR PAIN

Wretched Radio with Todd Friel

Fortis Institute

Religion, Christianity, Religion & Spirituality

4.9 • 3.1K Ratings

🗓️ 9 June 2025

⏱️ 55 minutes

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Summary

Segment 1:

• Todd reflects on the beauty and order of Huntsville, AL—and what that reveals about respect.

• Jason Allen preached Psalm 88: the darkest psalm has layers of hope beneath the surface.

• The Bible trains us to look beyond what’s visible—to see purpose behind pain.

Segment 2:

• Todd returns from Alabama to a banquet and a full sermon on Genesis 3.

• God’s patience in the garden reveals His heart—judgment delayed isn’t judgment denied.

• If we didn’t know David was “a man after God’s own heart,” would we believe it?

Segment 3:

• A teen girl describes detaching from her body at 13—drugs, diagnoses, and confusion followed.

• Screen time and puberty form a toxic mix that rewires young minds.

• Parents must guard their homes—discipline digital habits before culture does it for you.

Segment 4:

• Digital addiction has made basic real-world interaction a struggle—especially for kids.

• Some schools now issue “no-contact orders” to help students navigate friendships.

• Before cutting social media cold turkey, consider how the Gospel shapes wise boundaries.

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0:00.0	Ritchard Radio begins in three, two, one.
0:09.1	I want to mourn the old trees and tell them that we loved us.
0:14.2	I've looked at clear cuts in burnt forest, and I felt outraged.
0:19.7	We are the crowning glory of God's creation,
0:22.8	and all of nature was made for us.
0:25.8	Nature is more productive because of us, not less.
0:29.7	It's time for Wretched Radio with Todd Friel.
0:33.1	Some of y'all never been down south too much,
0:35.4	so I'm going to tell you a little story
0:37.2	so as you'll understand what I'm talking much. So I'm going to tell you a little story so as you'll
0:37.8	understand what I'm talking about. So's yo. Is that how we talk down here? Yikes. Close.
0:44.9	This is. I'm trying to assimilate. This is Ratchit Radio. If you live above the Mason Dixon line and
0:53.1	you've been toying with the idea of visiting us in the land of Dixie, I'm telling you, I got one more reason for you to come on down. Huntsville, Alabama. Wow. If a city, if you had to choose one town that you could actually eat a meal off of, I'm just telling you.
1:14.0	Huntsville, Alabama, pristine. I've never seen anything quite like it. It's a lovely size town.
1:20.4	My favorite size town, about 200,000. It's 228,000 in Huntsville, Alabama, which makes it now the number one largest, I think that's redundant, largest city in the state of Alabama.
1:33.7	Huntsville, because of all of its space stuff.
1:36.6	I don't want to get all technical with the numbers and math and science terminology because that would just make me look
1:47.1	really smart. But I'm telling you that town, whoever is running that place, they got it going on.
1:56.2	And it seems to me there's even lessons we can learn from a well-run city. When the town is esteemed,
2:06.1	people take care of it better. When more people take care of it better, even more people
2:11.3	take care of it better. Even in the parts of town that you could drive through where you could
2:16.3	tell on the socioeconomic ladder,
	...

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